Talk Like a Pirate Day

The Five A's


How to talk like a pirate...

Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland

Survivor: Pearl Islands


"We ARR Who We ARR"


Monmouth College's own pirates!



Reference Materials

The Treaty of Tordesillas


Map of the Barbary Coast


Map of English and Welsh counties in the 1600s


John Rocque's Map of London, 1746


Royal Museums Greenwich


The Longitude Problem


The Strait of Gibraltar in 3D


Map of the Cinque Ports

More on the Cinque Ports

Basic information on Chartered Companies

Historic Headstones


Gibbeting

Horrible Histories Historical Apprentice -- Putrid Pirates

Filibusters (military use)


The East India Company


The Historic Dockyard, Chatham



Links relating to The Stolen Village

Baltimore, Ireland (map)

Baltimore, Ireland (tourist information)

The National Library of Ireland


Smacks

History of the Claddagh

Dunashad Castle

Historic photos of Algiers

A spinning globe...


Map of the U.K. and Ireland


Cornish Shipwrecks


Woodstock Manor

Blenheim Palace

British National Archives, Kew

Palace of the Raïs, Algiers

Slave Market in Algiers

Topkapi Palace, Istanbul

Holy Trinity Church, Algiers


Documentary on the Escape from Colditz




Individual Pirates

When Blackbeard Scourged the Seas

William Dampier

Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind

Documentary on Henry Morgan

Execution of Captain Kidd


Woodes Rogers



Maritime Archaeology

Expedition Whydah

Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project

The Mary Rose

Wreck of the Cara Merchant



Other Topics of Interest

Pirate Havens


A Brief History of Prosthetics

Images of "Peg Legs"

Cape Coast Castle on Facebook

Information on Chapbooks and Coopers
in Colonial America

"Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes," c. 1790

Article on Pirate Latitudes



From Dr. Lorenzo's presentation

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Power Point slides (.pdf)




Further Reading

The story of the Barbary corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole (1890)

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by C. H. Haring (1910)

The Buccaneers of America by Alexander Exquemelin (1678)


Dining with the Sultana by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1718)

A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712) by Woodes Rogers



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